search using particular words

[ro2124]

Is there a way to search using particular words, for example´- say a file was called " The big House on the Hill" How could one arrange the search that only files containing "House" and "Hill" are shown Tried various things like putting commas between words etc but cant get it to work. Any advice?

[highend]

:house AND hill

@Don: Is Loose Boolean Match (LBM) currently broken?

[admin]

Hmmm, seems like... ... going to look now...

[admin]

Ah, this has to be ticked:
Configuration | Find and Filter | Find Files & Branch View | Find Files | Enable smart Boolean query parsing

See change log:

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v19.30.0012 - 2018-11-05 16:22
    + Configuration | Find and Filter | Find Files & Branch View | Find Files: 
      Added option "Enable smart boolean query parsing" (previously also 
      referred to as Loose Boolean Match). Tick it to treat a query as Boolean 
      expression if it looks like one. If ticked then e.g.

        " AND " is seen as Boolean AND
        " and " is seen as Boolean AND
        " & "   is seen as Boolean AND
        " "     is seen as Boolean AND

        " OR "  is seen as Boolean OR
        " or "  is seen as Boolean OR
        " | "   is seen as Boolean OR
        ";"     is seen as Boolean OR
        
      If unticked all the characters are just seen as normal parts of the 
      filename, and to have them treated as Boolean operators you have to prefix 
      the Boolean marker ":" to the query (or set Mode to "Boolean" in Find 
      Files). But note that the shorthand operators " " (AND) and ";" (OR) are 
      only recognized in Smart Boolean, not in Explicit Boolean mode.
      Note that this setting affects the parsing of Quick Search pattern as well 
      as Find Files (Name) patterns.
    > Tip: If you are unsure how your query is parsed you can always use this 
      script to reveal it (always returns the last-used query):
        text <get find_queryparsed>;
    * Smart Boolean Query Parsing: In all previous versions, SBQP had been 
      hard-coded to ON. From now on the factory default is OFF.
      Reason: Again and again users had been confused by the smartness. And 
      understandably so. This had been originally implemented because File 
      Explorer does it too (at least in earlier versions, not sure about now).

[highend]

Ahhh. Thanks for clarifying!

[ro2124]

Some useful tips there thanks. But not really being a computer wizard ,still not sure if I'm doing the right thing,

Do I need to put the symbol : before the query as shown in post or just put the "And" between words?

:house AND hill

As for this

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"this has to be ticked:

Configuration | Find and Filter | Find Files & Branch View | Find Files | Enable smart Boolean query parsing"

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unfortunately still on trial version so couldn't access configuration.

What I have done in extended search under Find Files have changed the mode to Boolean from Standard , so will it work like that too without configuration setting?

[jupe]

You have been using the 30 day trial version since 2014...? I guess that "unfortunately" word you used applies to the developer, not to you.

[admin]

Yes, that's shocking. I'd suggest you pay for the program you are using for free for 5 years now, then we talk about your usage questions...

[highend]

unfortunately still on trial version so couldn't access configuration

Since when can't we access the configuration while on 30-days trial? That's new to me...

[admin]

That happens after the 30 days are over. And they are certainly over in this case which looks more like a 1800 days trial...

[ro2124]

Yeah, guilty I am afraid
Well, really used XY sparingly, had other progs like Cubic Explorer etc and never got round to upgrading XY, but get the point, its a bit cheeky asking questions after all this time. So apologies and I`ll go and stand in the corner for 10 min.
Shall have a look at the upgrade page to get latest info.